1. He could not get a good response from American publishers in the beginning.
2. (i) His first volume of poems: "A Boy's Will" was published in 1913 by an English publisher.
(ii) His second volume "North of Boston" was published by the same publisher in 1914.
(iii) His first poem "The Butterfly" had already appeared in "The Independent" (New York) in 1894.
3. When he lived in Beaconsfield, England, most of his friends were Georgian poets.
4. Some of his other works which appeared later were:
(i) Mountain Interval (1916)
(ii) New Hampshire.... (1923)
(iii) West-Running Brook (1928)
(iv) A Further Range (1936)
(v) A Witness Tree (1942)
(vi) Steeple Bush (1947)
5. His "Complete Poems" appeared in 1949, at the end of which were placed two of his verse dramas:
(i) A Masque of Reason (1945) and
(ii) A Masque of Mercy (1947)
6. In his life, Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes, the Poet Laureateship of New England, and several other honors.
7. Before his death, he had become a national poet.
8. In his "The Figure a Poem Makes" (1949) which is a kind of Preface to his "Collected Poems," he gave his comments on a poem:
(i) "(A poem) begins in delight and ends in wisdom.... it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life...."
(ii) "The artist.... matches a thing from some previous order in time and space into a new order."
9. Some of their more famous poems of Frost are:
(i) Neither Out Far Nor in Deep
(ii) Birches
(iii) The Onset
(iv) The Pasture
(v) Provide, Provide
(vi) Mending Wall
(vii) The Road Not Taken
(viii) After Apple-Picking
(ix) Two Tramps in Mud Time
(x) Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
(xi) Directive
(xii) Meetting and Passing
(xiii) The Gift Outright
(xiv) A Considerable Speck
(xv) The Death of a Hired Man
(xvi) West, Running Brook
(xvii) Home Burial
(xviii) Departmental
(xix) Snow
(xx) The Tuft of Flowers
(xxi) Mowing
(xxii) Acquainted with the Night
(xxiii) The Need of Being Versed in County Things
(xxiv) I Will Sing You One--O
(xxv) Blueberries, etc.
10. Frost is studied on several levels:
(i) As an American poet
(ii) As a poet of nature
(iii) As a poet of New England
(iv) As a Rural poet
(v) As a Modern poet
(vi) As a poet of Truth
(vii) As a poet of known for new types or techniques, etc.
(viii) As a poet of New England/of New Hampshire, in particular.
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